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Asian stocks sink after IMF says global economy will shrink

by AP Business Writer
| April 16, 2020 12:03 AM

Asian stocks edged lower Wednesday after the International Monetary Fund said the global economy will suffer its worst year since the Great Depression of the 1930s due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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